Admittedly i am not a Katy Perry fan.... yes she has some good pop hooks and striking visuals...but honestly she everytime feels so manufactured it makes me ache.

And these fans that criticise her albums or praise other... i literally cannot hear any REAL difference from Teenage Dream, Prism, or Witness they all have that cartoony saccharine, sugary pop feel with feel good songs/sex songs or self empowerment songs.....there's no room in her bag for anything other than those three types of pop song.... so it baffles me that people compare album to album when they literally ALL have been recieved critically the same way since One of the Boys....THOUGH saying that OOTB actually is a decent album....kinda like Lily Allen but American version if that makes sense? not great the Max Martin songs are naff but the pop rock/quirky pop style suited her...... then she went TOO MUCH in the safe/catchy/confection area for Teenage Drea and.....has stayed there for a decade.

First i thought yay ZEDD he (imo) made Lady Gaga's best sound .... sure ARTPOP overally wasn't great but the sound/styles and feel i thought suited her outfits anyway.... so i was excited at the idea of using another manufactered diva in todays pop world and give a bit of a heavy edge to her.....but he went more the Ariana Grande route like Breaking Free as opposed to something like AURA ;-)

Her last 4 singles failed to reach the top 40 on the US Billboard chart she is done as chart performer , she had a great run and it happened to madonna, britney, christina, avril, mariah….. still can release plenty of new music and rely on ticket sales to make $$$

Her last 4 singles failed to reach the top 40 on the US Billboard chart she is done as chart performer , she had a great run and it happened to madonna, britney, christina, avril, mariah….. still can release plenty of new music and rely on ticket sales to make $$$

Katy Perry has been around for 10 years....... i mean that is genuinely abysmal! Not a fan in anyway shape or form ... but she is one of those that HAD her MOMENT and that's it.... there's only so much Max Martin and co can do and Teenage Dream/Prism/Witness i literally cannot hear any growth or essence that makes any album standout as anything bar typical commercialised Pop.

Now you mention Madonna there....shes been around for nearly 40 years the first time Madonna didnt have a HUGE hit on the American charts was in 2003 over 20 years into her career... and THAT was because the video/lyrical content was so controversial it was blacklisted on radio statios... the album still sold well and got top of the charts...... and since then she has had 5 more top 10's in the Billboard charts.....she is now 60! that is a MAJOR difference (well one of a BILLION) between her and Katy Perry.....at the same age Madonna was in her ErOTICA era.... during her second PEAK period (of which she would have two more to note in Ray of Light - Music, Confessions - Hard Candy/S&S tour)

And same for Mariah... whilst slightly different to Madonna career/legacy....she still achieved two HUGE peak moments in her legacy.... 1990 - 1999 she literally had big albumsingle/video/performance one after the other .... after Rainbow she tailed off funny enough a similar age to KP.... but she came back shook up her image and sound and style and had another huge peak in her career

Katy Perry is more akin to Cyndi Lauper, Christina Aguilera, Avril Lavigne maybe than those two...heck even Spears had TWO major peaks of interest...... and still a household name comparatively.

Point being... Katy Perry doesn't have a legacy.....she has hits/pop anthems..... I mean ROar, Kissed a Girl, Hot and Cold, Firework, Teenage Dream, California Girls, Et, Friday Night are always going to be on the radio... because that is their nature that was what she was designed to do... make catchy pop songs of the moment.... but compared to her peers Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Beyonce, even Kesha (who penned a lot of the Greatest Showman soundtrack) how can she even compete with them!?

Her time is done as a commercial pop performer. people have seen the gimmick and thats it